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Swiss lawmakers consider all-night gas station shops

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:31:36 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Gas station shops along autoroutes and main highways in Switzerland could soon sell goods all night, if the federal taxation and finance committee of the lower house of parliament has its way. It is recommending that the stations’ staff be allowed to sell not only restaurant food and petrol during the [...]

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Geneva’s new lakeside food stalls solar-powered

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:23:30 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Food and souvenir vendors and ice-cream sellers along the lakefront in Geneva will soon be working from bright new stalls that will replace the drab ones they have used for years. The issue of what the new huts would look like was a hot political potato in Geneva for six years [...]

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Expat fair season kicks off in region

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:11:37 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Morges, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Lake Geneva area has numerous business and social clubs and networking groups for the English-speaking in international population that welcome newcomers, but every autumn the region is home to two events, each of which pull in a few thousand visitors, which make it easy for new arrivals to learn more [...]

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Geneva’s petty crime on the rise

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:37:20 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Petty larceny, with pickpocketing high on the list, has been rising in Geneva: 1,597 arrests in 2006; 1,794 in 2007 and 1,955 in 2008, according to police figures, possibly in line with a nationwide increase, but comparative figures will not be available before 2010, reports AFP. The news agency notes in [...]

Green goes the chocolate-o!

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:30:03 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Updated 10 April 13:10 London, England and Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Mars has become the latest chocolate maker to go green with its products, making a commitment ” to spend tens of millions of dollars annually certifying that the cocoa used in the $10bn of chocolate products it sells every year is sustainably sourced by 2020,” [...]